ode

Ode is a poem that you sing or is a poem honoring a specific person or subject that is written in a clear lyrical style.

An example of an ode is William Wordsworth's Imitations of Immortality.

ode

a poem written to be sung

in modern use, a lyric poem, rhymed or unrhymed, typically addressed to some person or thing and usually characterized by lofty feeling, elaborate form, and dignified style

Origin of ode

French from Late Latin oda from Classical Greek ?id?, song, contr. from aoid? from aeidein, to sing from Indo-European an unverified form aweid- from base an unverified form aw-, to speak from source Sanskrit vádati, (he) speaks

-ode

way, path: electrode

Origin of -ode

from Classical Greek hodos, path, way from Indo-European base an unverified form sed-, to go from source Classical Latin cedere

Sentence Examples

It is the ode on the fall of the king of Babylon in chap. xiv.

Du Bellay replied to his various assailants in a preface to the second edition (1550) of his sonnet sequence Olive, with which he also published two polemical poems, the Musagnaeomachie, and an ode addressed to Ronsard, Contre les envieux poetes.

Herrick, in his well-known Ode to Ben, mentions several of the inns of the day.

Pindar, in the fourth Pythian ode, gives the oldest detailed account of it.

He had lost his admiration for the Revolutionists, as his "Ode to France" shows (Morning Post, April 16, 1798).